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Very cool video on communicating data, on visualizations and how to make data more accessible.

And are we surprised? A brief posting by British J-techer Roy Greenslade shows they think they’ll work in print but they don’t read it. So, where do they get their news? 

Rescuing the Chilean miners has become a “made for TV” event. For some reason, that just seems wrong to me.

Elsewhere on Town Hall is this post about Murray Brewster receiving the Ross munro Media Award, given out by the Conference of Defence Associations and Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute —…

Proving political comment need not be dry, the often hilarious Heather Mallick, in the Toronto Star, imagines how Toronto will feel about “waking up” with a suddenly, incredibly, apparently landslide-bound wild-card wild-man…

Journalism.co.uk is publishing extracts from Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines by Vaughan Smith. It’s an interesting read.

Joshua Benton of the Niemen Journalism Lab takes a peek at the words New York Times readers looked up most often this year and sees evidence of a time that’s dark and…

In Pakistan, a disaster of epic proportions has unfolded. The Times of India reports it will take years for the country to recover. Yet media coverage has been relatively muted. In a…

Harvey Cashore has a new book on the stands about the Airbus Affair. It’s called : The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, Schreiber and…

When Omar Khadr’s trial resumes, the issue of interrogation methods and torture techniques will once again be canvassed. Not well-known is the role played years ago by a Manitoba professor in the…